Dutch War Grave Roman Catholic Cemetery

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Brielle Roman Catholic Cemetery contains one Dutch war grave of Jacobus Jansen from World War II.

Jacobus Jansen was born on 13 February 1902 and died on 11 or 12 December 1944 according to the German archives. He married Cornelia Maria Smit on 6 December 1929. The family consisted of three children and lived at Venkelstraat 46. The occupier requested a work pass for him on 13 August 1943. Jacobus Jansen was forced to work in Germany. The pass was issued on 16 August and his address in Germany was then Bochum (field post number 56131 B). He was registered as a worker (prisoner number 2118) at the Organisation Todt. (The O.T. was a German government agency that, after the outbreak of the war, managed construction projects such as the Atlantic Wall and the Polar Eisenbahn. Forced labourers were used on a large scale for these projects.) On 12 September 1943 he was temporarily home again. Then he left for Germany again. On January 11, he writes in a letter to his wife that he has received a suitcase with wonderful things from the Netherlands. At the end of May 1944, he comes home on sick leave. On June 12, he is arrested and transferred via Dordrecht, Amersfoort to a camp in Dölkau. Jacob Jansen died on December 11 from malnutrition in this camp located in Zöschen Landkreis Merseburg.

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